Paste dispensing device



' Dec.28, 1937. I H. GREENWOOD r 2,103,415

PASTE DISPENSING DEVICE Filed March 19; 1937 Patented Dec. 28, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2 Claims.

The present invention relates to the art of dispensing pasty materials, such as toothpaste, shaving cream, etc., and. particularly to a device adapted for the dispensing of this material.

5 The principal object of my invention is the provision of a cheap, simple, sturdy device suitable as a fixture in bathrooms, capable of being manufactured from a single piece of metal by a stamping operation and adapted for use as a dis- 10 penser for toothpaste and similar material.

A further object of my invention is the provision, in a device of the character described, of means for holding a bottle of mouthwash and toothbrushes, said means being created in the 15 same stamping operation by which the paste dispenser is made.

An additional object of my invention is the provision of a device, of the character described, having arms for supporting a spindle to which 20 the metal strip on a tube of toothpaste, or like material, can be affixed and rolled up to extrude the paste from the tube, in which the spindle is slidingly removable from the arms, whereby, when the tube is completely rolled up, the spindle can 25 be disengaged from it by a sliding movement and the necessity for unrolling the tube is eliminated.

Further objects and advantages of my invention will appear from the accompanying drawing, in which,

3 Figure 1 is a plan View of the preferred embodiment of my device;

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the device shown in Figure 1; and,

Figure 3 is a front elevation of a modification 35 of said device in which the tray for holding a bottle and toothbrushes is omitted.

Referring specifically to Figure 1, numeral I designates a metal blank originally of substantially rectangular shape having a bent up end portion 2 provided with perforations 3 for the reception of nails or screws, a pair of outwardly extending arms 4, each provided with an upwardly turned lip 5, having an opening 6 to receive a spindle which has a forked shank 'l and a 45 flattened head 8. This spindle is ordinarily made of a cotter pin to the head of which a flat piece of metal is secured. This fiat piece of metal may be made by dipping the head of the cotter pin into molten lead and flattening out the lead after 50 it has solidified.

Struck out of plate I, at a point intermediate and behind the arms 4, is a downwardly extending tongue 9 which is inclined forwardly to a sufficient extent to form a support against which the tube, secured in shank I, abuts and is restricted from rotation.

Struck out of blank i in an upward direction are lugs ill leaving recess H in blank I. These lugs are so shaped as to leave a recess of a configuration peculiarly adapted tohold a toothbrush. The lugs may be bent in such a manner as to resiliently embrace any article, such as a bottle, placed between them. 10

The modification shown in Figure 3 is the same. as that described above, with the omission of the tray-like portion adapted to hold toothbrushes and a bottle. 7

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, and illustrated the preferred embodiment of the same, what I claim as new and useful and desired to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A dispenser for toothpaste, and the like, comprising a metal plate having one end turned up substantially at right angles thereto and provided with perforations for the reception of retaining means, and having at its other end a pair of arms extending outwardly in a substantially horizontal direction, a lip turned up on each of said arms at right angles thereto, aligned perforations in said lips, a slidingly removable spindle disposed in said perforations, said spindle having a forked shank and an enlarged head, and a tongue struck out of said metal plate at a point behind said arms in such a manner as to extend downwardly and forwardly.

2. As an article of manufacture, a bathroom fixture made from a single metal plate having one of its ends bent at right angles to form an attaching means, a pair of arms struck out ofrthe other end of said plate provided with lips having aligned perforations for the journaling of a spindle, said arms being spaced suificiently from said fastening means to provide an intermediate tray- 40 like portion, a tongue struck out of said plate between said tray-like portion. and said arms and extending downwardly from said plate in a forwardly inclined direction, and a plurality of lugs struck up from said plate in said tray-like portion, said lugs being so arranged as to cooperate with each other in the retention of a bottle or like article and being of a configuration such that the spaces left in said tray-like portions by the striking out of said lugs are adapted to hold toothbrushes.

HAROLD GREENWOOD. 

